Posted on 02/11/2003 7:55:27 AM PST by AntiGuv
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said in an interview broadcast on Tuesday the United States should exercise patience in its standoff with Iraq to help build allied support for a potential strike.
Clinton told NBC's Today Show he did not believe war in Iraq was inevitable so long as Iraqi President Saddam Hussein opts to disarm.
While stressing a second U.N. resolution was not strictly necessary, the former president said the United States ought to take pains to repair a growing rift with allies Germany, France and Russia over the need for war.
"What I hope will happen is that we will let the process play out enough to maximize our international support. I would really like to see the whole U.N. with us, and I think there is a chance they will be," he said in the taped interview.
"I think they will come around, if they believe that we gave the whole inspection and U.N. process a fair chance. ... We need to look like we're determined but not eager to go to war."
Clinton called Secretary of State Colin Powell's Feb. 5 presentation to the United Nations "quite effective, as he always is," and praised the Bush administration for making use of the international body.
"I think the patience that has been shown so far is good," he said.
The fact that France has decided to hold us hostage to its veto power does not mean that the rest of the world is against us. Most of Europe supports US policy.
You had your chance to deal with terrorists/Iraq while you were in office. You chose to sit on your dirty, grimy, guilty hands and do nothing. Now, SHUT UP and let a real leader take care of things. You are obsolete, bub, and I'm deathly sick of you. Rot in hell you lying, incompetent, cowardly socialist piece of cow pucky.
Okay. I took a deep breath and counted to 100 million. I'm calm now.
This is a lie being spread by every lefty with a spotlight on him. France, Germany, Belgium & Luxemborg do not equal "Europe."
Read that sentence again.It's pure gobbledy-gook.His lack of doing anything of substance for the good of the world for 8 years,(EX:He could've said "Yes" to Sudan "we'll take Osama Bin Laden";He could've let his CIA Director and FBI Chief meet with him more than once a year)really shows he has no credibility as a human being, much less even when he was POTUS.He has no shame and had no balls in office. After all, he only wanted "THE POWER" not all the responsibility that comes with it.He and Hillary Rotten really are a perfect match for each other,aren't they? No wonder they stay together,they're almost the same person!
I think he played sex or whormonica in some blows band or something...
I'm on the verge of adding NBC.
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